50 CANARY-BIRD. 



may be added to the composition already 

 described. The seed need not be bruised, 

 as they are then capable of digesting 

 them. A sweet almond or two, chopped 

 fine, with a small proportion of chick-weed 

 seed, may occasionally be given to them. 

 The latter is very requisite for them, when 

 the weather is hot and dry, at least twice a 

 day. Should you observe strictly this 

 prescribed mode of feeding, the certainty 

 of your birds thriving is so great, that 

 it will be impossible to lose one in fifty. 



When your young birds first commence 

 feeding themselves, should any of them 

 fall ill, they must be treated according to 

 the following directions. Take three table- 

 spoonsful of hemp-seed, first carefully wash- 

 ed in cold watef, bruise it in a mortar, 

 immediately placing it in fresh cold water 

 a second time, from which take it again 

 and place it in a fragment of clean linen, 

 then squeeze the entire juice of the contents 

 into the last used water through the cloth. 

 This forms a draught called by fanciers 



